Affiliate Disclosure

What Is an Affiliate Link?

An affiliate link is a specially tracked URL that allows us to earn a small commission if you click the link and subsequently make a purchase — at absolutely no additional cost to you. The price you pay is identical whether you use our link or navigate to the retailer directly.

Amazon Associates Program

The Publishing Times is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, and other Amazon marketplace sites.

Our Amazon affiliate tag is seperts-20. When you click an Amazon link on this site and make a purchase within 24 hours, we may receive a commission of between 1% and 10% of the sale price, depending on the product category. This commission comes from Amazon, not from you.

Bookshop.org Affiliate Programme

The Publishing Times is an affiliate of Bookshop.org, an online bookstore that supports independent bookshops. Our Bookshop.org affiliate ID is 122250.

When you click a Bookshop.org link on this site and make a purchase, we may receive a commission of approximately 10% of the sale price. A portion of every Bookshop.org purchase also goes to independent bookshops across the United States. This commission comes from Bookshop.org, not from you.

We recommend Bookshop.org as an ethical alternative to Amazon for readers who wish to support independent bookshops while purchasing online.

Other Affiliate Programmes

In addition to Amazon and Bookshop.org, The Publishing Times may participate in affiliate programmes for other publishing-related tools and services, including but not limited to:

• Scrivener (Literature & Latte)
• Draft2Digital
• Reedsy
• Shopify, Happy Scribe and InVideo (through the Impact affiliate network)
• Other self-publishing software and services

When we recommend a product or service through an affiliate programme, we will disclose this relationship at the point of recommendation.

How We Identify Affiliate Content

We make every effort to clearly identify affiliate content on this site. You will see the following indicators:

• Ad blocks labelled "Sponsored · Amazon", "AFFILIATE", or "Bookshop.org" in the sidebar and homepage
• The sitewide affiliate disclosure bar displayed in the footer of every page
• This dedicated Affiliate Disclosure page, linked from the footer of every page
• HTML rel="sponsored" attributes on all affiliate links for search engine transparency

Editorial Independence

Affiliate relationships do not influence our editorial content. Our news aggregation, reviews, and editorial opinions are entirely independent of any commercial relationships. We only recommend products and services that we genuinely believe offer value to our readers. We will never recommend a product solely because it pays a higher commission.

FTC Compliance

This disclosure is provided in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR Part 255 guidelines on endorsements and testimonials in advertising. The FTC requires that material connections between endorsers and advertisers be clearly disclosed. Our use of affiliate links constitutes such a material connection, and we disclose it accordingly.

If you have questions about whether a specific link on this site is an affiliate link, please contact us via our contact form and we will clarify.

Questions or Concerns

If you have any questions about our affiliate relationships, our disclosure practices, or how we select products to recommend, please contact us via our contact form.